Stella and the Minx #28:
The Adventures of
Blackout and Sunbeam
Our
story so far: Stellar
Man and Night Fox were the greatest heroes of the 60s but in the 70s their
female counterparts Stella and Minx took over!
But now the Minx is missing and someone
else must take her place!
This is the story of the Sentinel
Sisters: the Dark Avenger and the Light Crusader…
BLACKOUT and SUNBEAM!
Marcus Lycus
June 2009
Issue 28 – The Adventures of
Blackout and Sunbeam
“Bring her in.” Boss Bruno commanded.
The two soldiers
carried in the unconscious woman by the arms, her feet dragged along the
floor. Her head rolled from side to side
and a bit of drool ran down her chin. He
grabbed her short brown hair and wrenched her head up. He took a good look at her.
“So she’s the one? This little cunt’s been causing all those
problems for us.”
“Her and that other
one.”
“Yeah. Where is her partner anyway?”
“Got her in the guest
room.”
***
Sunbeam slowly opened
her eyes and rubbed her head. The last
thing she remembered was fighting some crooks in an alleyway. She’d just blinded them when… “I guess someone hit me.” She looked around. She was in a sparse bedroom. Besides the bed she was in, there was a
makeup table, a mirror on the wall and two doors. One was open and led to a small bathroom, the
other was closed and locked.
“Great.” She sat up.
She was still wearing her costume, a red and yellow leotard with
wrist-length gloves and matching boots.
She checked the hidden compartments in her gloves and her thighs. Her flash bombs were gone. She checked the compartments in her boot
heels, the lock-picks were gone too. Not
that it mattered, she’d never learned how to use them anyway.
It was official then,
she was a prisoner. Somehow though she
felt calm. Almost unnaturally calm. She’d talked to her sister Natalie about
being captured, what might happen, what they would do. She knew she just had to wait for her
chance. Anything else was a waste of
energy.
The door opened,
Sunbeam turned, Boss Bruno strode in.
“So you’re the little
girl who caused me all that trouble.”
Sunbeam tried to
remember the plans she’d made with her sister.
She knew she couldn’t show fear.
She had to stand up to them, let them know she wouldn’t be cowed.
“Let me go now or-OOF!”
Boss Bruno punched her
in the stomach and she doubled over. He
grabbed her head in his meaty paws and slammed it hard against the concrete
wall. Then he shoved the dazed girl to
the floor and stomped on her back a few times.
Finally, when she
stopped moving, he reached down and grabbed her hair and pulled her up.
“Sorry, you wuz saying
something?”
The girl sobbed.
He rammed her face onto
the table with a loud THUMP! He bent
over and whispered in her ear.
“Hello Dawn.”
“Y-you know-“
“Dawn Lux, sister of
Natalie Lux. You two live in a your
dad’s old place just out of town.”
“But-“
“You really shouldn’t
try to sneak around rooftops dressed in bright yellow. My men followed you home a week ago. Had you under surveillance since then.”
“Oh god…”
He pulled her up by her
hair again and made her face at the mirror.
Bruises were already forming.
“You’re mine now, you got that?”
“L-let me go!” She yelled, her voice cracking with fear.
WHAM!
He slammed her against
the table again and lifted her up. He
snapped his fingers.
On the other side of
the mirror the lights went on. The
one-way mirror became transparent. It
took a second for the dazed girl to understand what she was looking at.
It was a bare cement
room. Racks on the walls held tools,
chains, ropes and whips. And in the
center…
“Natalie!”
The brunette was
unconscious, her hands bound to a metal pole that hung from the ceiling. Two cruel-looking thugs watched over
her. Boss Bruno snapped his fingers
again and the lights went out, the mirror became normal.
“Understand now?”
“Please! Let her go!
It’s not her fault! It was all my
idea!”
“Worried about her
huh?”
“Please! I’ll do anything you want!”
“Take off your
leotard.”
Sunbeam froze.
“Oh, so that’s how it
is.” Bruno turned to leave.
“No, wait, just-“
He turned his
head. “Girl, if I wanted you naked, I’d
rip that super suit off you myself. All
I want to know is if you’ll play ball.
Cause if you don’t…”
“I’ll do it!” The blonde screamed. “I’ll do it…”
She hung her head low
and sobbed a few times. How had it come
to this? How had it all fallen apart so
fast?
“Well?”
It was a yellow and red
leotard, the matching twin to her sister’s blue and grey outfit. It was cut high on her hips and had no
shoulder straps to give her maximum freedom of movement. She’d found it was useful for her gymnastics
and judo moves. She also loved the way
it flattered her figure. And now it was
the only thing between her slender body and the hulking crime boss in front of
her. Not to mention the goons surrounding her.
Dawn felt very small and very vulnerable. Not like a superheroine at all.
She reached behind and
felt for the zipper. She pulled it
down. One hand went reflexively to hold
the front, to keep herself covered as long as she could.
They were all looking
at her. One was licking his lips. She turned around. Staring only at the blank wall she pulled the
leotard down. She peeled it off of her
hips and then pulled it down her legs.
She stepped out of it and turned around, one hand over her breasts, one
over her pelvis. She shivered.
“Come on! Show us your tits!” One thug yelled. Boss Bruno shot him a look and the thug fell
silent.
“Please…” Sunbeam whined, she wasn’t sure how to end
that sentence. Please don’t hurt
me? Please don’t hurt my sister? Please let this be a bad dream? All of the above?
Boss Bruno raised his
hand, Sunbeam winced, waiting for another blow, instead he tenderly stoked her
light brown hair. “Come here Dawn.” He pulled her close and put a hand on her
back.
“You and me, we’re
going to be friends okay? And I don’t
hurt my friends.” She nodded
helplessly. “Put your arms around me.” The blond girl helplessly complied, pushing
her body closer to his to hide her nakedness from his thugs.
“Good, now kiss my
neck.”
Dawn meekly
complied. The crime boss’ skin was rough
and stank of cheap cologne. She kissed
it a few times, pressing her slender body against his hulking one, feeling his
hand on her ass, trying to forget the thugs around them. She knew she could endure this, almost, if
only they were alone.
“Nibble on my
ear.” Boss Bruno rumbled.
He had disgusting
cauliflower ears, crushed by his years as an underground wrestler, Dawn gagged
when she saw it but managed to squeeze her eyes shut and give it a lick. He stomach churned. How had it come to this!? Where had they gone wrong?
***
It was a pretty
typical night for Blackout and Sunbeam.
There’d been a string of robberies in the jewelry district so they were
staking out the rooftops, hoping to catch the gang in the act.
“Natalie all I’m
saying is maybe she’s in trouble. No
one’s seen the Minx for weeks, not since she escaped from jail. Maybe she was captured or something.”
“Geeze Dawn, didn’t
you hear her? She doesn’t want our help,
she doesn’t need our help, she thinks we should stay home and watch
“Well what about
Stella? We could go find her and offer
to help.”
“What? Us lowly mortals helping the girl of the
stars? What does she need us for? She can search the whole city with her x-ray
eyes and never even have to leave her chair.”
“But…”
“Face it Dawn, the
Minx had her chance and she blew it! Whatever
happened to her the fact is she’s not here now, she’s not protecting the city,
we are. And maybe by the time she comes
back the city won’t need her anymore.
Maybe by the time she comes back we’ll finally be getting the respect we
deserve. And we’ll get it without
sleeping with some geriatric superhero so we can take his place.”
“Natalie! You don’t really believe those stories-“
“Why not? You saw the way she dressed, the way she
acted. And one of my contacts on the
police force tells me she screwed Detective Mulligan, right there in his
office. I bet her whole reputation is
made up, she probably slept with half the reporters in the Daily Comet to get
all that press.”
“Oh uh, speaking of
reporters… I ran into Timmy
O’Leary. He says he wants to put me in
the Daily Comet’s Sunday Magazine. The
cover. Pretty cool huh? He says I’ve got a really good look.”
“Hmph. If you spent as much time working on your
crime-fighting skills as you did on your suntan we’d be much better off.”
“Natalie! I told you I’m Sunbeam, I have to look tan
and healthy, it’s part of my image!
Y’know I can ask him about putting you on too if that’s what bothering
you. I’m sure he’ll say yes.”
“No, forget it. I prefer the shadows.” Blackout sulked for a few minutes. “He’s just trying you get into your pants you
know.”
“Huh, you think?”
“I’ve seen the way he
looks at you, he’s a creep.”
“Timmy’s not a
creep!”
“That’s not what my
sources at the Daily Comet say. They say
he’s been sleeping with Princess Patriot for months.”
“What? No way!
Princess Patriot doesn’t do that kind of stuff.”
“That’s not what they
say. Plus he’s got some girl from the
typing pool on the side. So whatever, go
off and be the next notch on his bedpost.
Ruin our reputation as serious heroines, be just like your idol the
Minx. See if I care.”
“Natalie I-“
CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!
A burglar alarm
interrupted the sisters’ bickering.
“Over there on
Sunbeam bounded after
her sister through the Megapolis night.
Despite their bickering Dawn loved these patrols with her sister. There was something about putting on a mask
and a costume, racing above the streets, that made her feel powerful. When she was in her Sunbeam costume she just
felt more confident, stronger, braver, more skilled. Sure she’d studied gymnastics in school and
taken some karate classes but when she put her costume on she could take on
guys twice her size and never break a sweat.
She could hear the
alarm it was close now, she could even hear the sound of shoe leather hitting
pavement as the robbers fled.
Blackout was ahead of
her, she reached the end of the roof and somersaulted off in into the alley
below.
By the time Sunbeam
reached the edge, the alleyway was already shrouded in darkness. She could hear her sister’s words rising from
the black cloud.
“You criminals think
the darkness is your friend, you think the shadows are your home, blah, blah,
blah afraid of the dark!”
Dawn wondered if the
crooks would be as scared if they knew how long Natalie spent in front of the
mirror practicing her little speeches.
She shook her head and jumped off the edge of the roof.
She tumbled twice and
landed lightly on her feet.
Amazing.
A 30’ drop and she
was fine. There really was something
about wearing a costume…
As usual one of the
crooks broke and ran, firing his pistol wildly.
And as usual Sunbeam was waiting for him.
“Aw was it too scary
in the dark? Well maybe it’s time to
turn on the li-AH!”
Something hit her
from behind and the world went dark. Her
slim body collapsed in a heap onto the filthy pavement.
“Sunbeam? Dawn!”
Blackout finished off her crook with a vicious kick between the legs and
ran forward, something had happened to her sister!
“Hey there Blackout.”
There were five of them,
with pistols aimed at her. Worse yet one
of them had Dawn by the hair and was pointing a gun at her head. Blackout heard footsteps behind her, four
more crooks filled the alleyway cutting off her escape. She palmed a blackout bomb from the strap on
her thigh.
“I wouldn’t try that
if I was you. Sure you can blind us, but
at this range…” he prodded Sunbeam with
his pistol “…I don’t think I’ll miss.”
Blackout’s mind
raced, she had to distract the leader, get him to let Dawn go, then she could
worry about the goons. “What’s the
matter, you’re not man enough to take me alone?
You need your-OW”
One of the goons
pistol-whipped her from behind. Another
swung a baseball bat across the back of her knees. Blackout collapsed face-first into the
gutter. She rolled and got ready to kick.
“Stay down girl. As long as you don’t fight back, Sunbeam
doesn’t get a .38 caliber head massage.”
Blackout froze. It was all the opening the goons needed.
Kicks and blows
rained down on her, she grabbed a man’s ankle but was too weak to hold on. Her vision got blurry, she spat out a tooth,
she tasted blood.
Then rough hands
seized her arms and dragged her to her knees.
The lead thug swaggered up to her, still dragging Sunbeam like a rag
doll.
“Let her go…” Blackout hissed. “I’m the one you want, she’s just helping
me.”
The thug dropped
Sunbeam and pulled a hypodermic needle out of his jacket pocket. He held it up, checked it and smiled at
Blackout.
“Honey, the simple
fact is Boss Bruno wants both of you.
He’s got big plans and I’d hate for you to miss them.”
“NO! Let her go!
Let her go! Take me! Take me damnit!” She tried to shake off the goons but they
were too strong, she was too weak, everything hurt! She felt the needle slip into her shoulder
and then everything went away.
***
Blackout
moaned and cracked her eyes. Her arms
hurt. Her whole body hurt. She cracked her eyes wider and winced at the
light. But she squinted and looked
around. She was hanging from her arms in
a ‘Y’ shape. Her wrists were strapped to
a metal bar suspended from the ceiling. Her feet dangled a foot or two off the
floor. She noted their mistake. They hadn’t tied her legs! To someone with her karate training her feet
were just as deadly as her hands. She
tried moving a leg but it barely twitched.
Everything felt a bit numb, a bit weak.
No doubt the drugs they’d given her were still slowing her down. No matter, she just needed some time to
recover her strength.
Turning
her head she could see several thugs standing around leering at her. She recognized one or two as men she’d busted
during her nightly patrols. And normal
woman would be scared or intimidated but not Blackout. She knew they wouldn’t really hurt her,
crooks knew better than to mess with a superheroine. They’d just hold her until she could escape
or until help came. She just had to stay
calm.
***
Sunbeam sat on Boss
Bruno’s lap, still pressing her bare breasts against his chest. Still kissing his rough skin.
“You love your sister
don’t you?”
“Um, yes?”
“Do anything for her
right?”
“Um…”
“That ain’t too
enthusiastic Dawn…” He took one of her
arms and twisted, the girl winced in pain.
“Y…yes…” Dawn didn’t like where this was going.
Boss Bruno put his
meaty hands on her shoulders and shoved her off his lap, the slim girl tumbled
to the floor.
“Recognize him?” Bruno pointed at one of his men. The guy grinned at the girl at his feet.
“Um…”
“His name’s
Tucker. Bout a week ago you blinded him
and kicked him in the nuts. Poor Tuck couldn’t
walk right or see right for a week.”
“Oh.”
“Say you’re sorry.”
“Um, I’m sorry. Um… sir?”
The men chuckled.
“I don’t think she
means it boss. Betcha we could get her
sister to say sorry. Betcha we could get
her to say it real loud.” Tucker and the
others laughted.
“No…”
“Now, now you love your
sister right?”
“Yes!”
“Then kneel down and
tell Tucker how sorry you are.”
Dawn’s knees were
shaking so badly it was almost a relief to kneel down. Now if only her body would stop shaking
too. He breasts were practically
swinging like pendulums!
“Please, um Mr. Tucker,
I’m really, really sorry. I um, promise
I won’t do it ever again. Please…”
“Kiss my feet Dawn.”
“Um, OK.” She bent over, and gave each of his shoes a
little kiss. She rose up and looked at
him again.
“Now suck my dick.”
“What?!”
SMACK!
Tucker hit the girl
hard enough to knock her on her side.
Then he kicked her in the gut.
Finally he grabbed her hair and pulled her back on her knees. The girl was crying hysterically by
then. Tucker unzipped.
“Now suck it
bitch! Suck it or I swear to God I’ll
make you beg to suck my dick! You and
your bitch sister!”
“No, plea-“ Dawn never finished the sentence, Tucker
grabbed her by the hair and jammed her face into his crotch.
“Come on bitch, suck it,
suck it or I swear to God I’ll pry out your damn teeth and make you a full-time
cock sucking machine, I mean it.”
The terrified girl
opened her mouth a crack, it was all Tucker needed. He jammed his dick down her throat and pushed
and pulled her head up and down it. The
terrified girl almost gagged on the man-meat but managed to keep from biting
down. She knew that would mean her life,
and her sister’s.
Finally her mouth
filled with the warm salty taste of his cum.
“Lick it clean
bitch! Lick it!”
Crying Dawn applied her
tongue to the twitching dick the filled her mouth, trying not to gag, not to
puke. Finally he pulled her head loose
and tossed her to the floor.
“Slut!” He said and kicked her.
“Now, now Tucker. The little girl did her best, didn’t you
Dawn?”
Dawn just gasped on the
floor. Boss Bruno knelt down next her,
suddenly the very model of sympathy and understanding.
“Now Dawn, I know
you’re in a tough spot right now, but if you care for your sister, or for
yourself, you’d better answer.”
Dawn looked at the
crime boss through slit eyes, with him kneeling like that she could think of a
dozen karate moves that would knock him out, even kill him.
But none of them would
help, the other men would kill her, then her sister. No, she had to play along. She had to.
“I… I’ll do my
best. I promise.”
“There, there, that’s
all we ask Dawn. And it’s not like you
won’t have a second chance.” He pointed
at another thug. “I’m sure you remember
Pete, you broke his arm and left him for the cops.”
Dawn couldn’t remember
the man, all her opponents were just a blur.
But she nodded mutely.
“And Dan over there,
you blinded him, beat him up and left him locked in a dumpster.”
Dawn nodded again.
“But we can let bygones
be bygones can’t we boys?”
The two men chuckled
evily. They got out of their chairs.
“Why don’t the three of
you kiss and make up?”
One of them threw Dawn
onto the cot, they both pulled down their pants.
Dawn’s eyes went wide
in terror.
“Now Dawn, you do want
to make up don’t you? For your sake and
your sister’s?”
“Y-yes?”
“That’s a good
girl. Now show them how much you want
it.”
Dawn swallowed her
fear, swallowed her pride, she’d gone this far, she could do this…
She sat up. She forced herself to smile. She put her hands on her breasts.
“C-come on…” She said, her voice cracking. “What are you waiting for?”
Pete and Dan high-fived
and shoved her back down. Pete pulled
her legs apart while Dan forced his cock into her mouth.
And Dawn tried to
pretend she was enjoying it.
***
The door opened and
Blackout looked up wearily. It was Boss
Bruno. Her heart sank. She’d been hoping she’d been captured by some
random thugs but Boss Bruno made things was far, far worse.
Besides his drug and
numbers rackets he ran most of the brothels and strip clubs in Megapolis, he
had a reputation for taking girls.
Taking them, and breaking them.
And he was smiling at
her.
She snarled back.
“So you’re the little
dame who’s been making all the trouble for my boys. Funny, you’re even smaller than your sister.”
So they did have
her! Or at least they wanted her to
think they did. Blackout’s hopes dimmed
further. But Blackout swallowed and
glared back at him. “That’s nothing
compared to the trouble you’re in now Bruno.”
“Oh? Tell me babe, what kind of trouble am I in?”
“We’re heroines. And we stick together. If we don’t report in by sunrise Stella,
Princess Patriot and all the rest will know we’re in trouble and they’ll come
looking for you. It won’t take long to
find us with stellar sight. Your men are
pretty good at hitting a girl from behind, how are then when half the
superheroes in Megapolis bust down the door?”
Bruno actually looked
concerned for a second but then the smile came back. “Nice one, nice one.” He walked around the bound heroine, admiring how
her tight leotard showed off her athletic body.
“And y’know if you were a real heroine I might believe it. But word on the street is you’ve got no one. Word on the street is you’ve been begging the
Minx to let you join and she turned you down flat. Turned you down…” SMACK!
He whacked her butt. “… cause you
don’t know what you’re doing. So I bet
no one knows you’re here, no one knows you’re missing and no one’s coming for
you.”
The look of fear on
Blackout’s face told Boss Bruno he was right.
“So I guess I ain’t in
any trouble at all.” He grabbed the girl
from behind and mangled her breasts.
Blackout gasped in surprise before regaining her composure. One meaty hand rose up and tore off her
domino mask. Blackout winced as the
spirit gum came loose.
“You’re kind of cute
y’know.”
He dropped the mask and
cupped her sex through the thin leotard, Blackout grit her teeth.
Then he let laughed and
let go. “I can tell you’re a frigid
little bitch.”
“Fuck you.”
“Nothing like your
sister.”
“Sunbeam! Where is she!
What are you-“
Bruno pushed a
button. The mirror on the wall turned
transparent.
Blackout gasped. “No…”
Sunbeam was naked on
her knees while a man took her from behind while another shoved his dick down
her throat.
“Your sister’s a lot
friendlier than you are.” Bruno pushed a
button and the mirror became reflective again.
“No… no… please… let
her go… I’ll do anything. Anything…”
“Will you fuck me?”
“What!?”
“Right now, wrap those
little legs around me, pull me in tight and fuck me like a bitch in heat. And I’ll let your sister go.”
He raised a hand to her
face. But Blackout recoiled.
“Oh well then.” He turned to the door. “Bring it in!”
“What are you-“
SMACK! The impact cut off Blackout’s question.
“You’re the girl who
likes the dark right? Well we got just
the thing for you.” A thug entered with
a bag. Bruno pulled something out. It was a leather mask, the same colors as
Blackout’s costume but with no eyeholes and with padding on the ears.
“I know how much seeing
your sister like that upset you, so I’ll make sure you never have to see
anything like that again.”
“What, no! NO!”
One of the thugs
grabbed her head and held it still while Bruno fit the mask over her face. They’d measured her while she was
unconscious, it fit perfectly. The pads
blinded and deafened the young heroine.
Bruno pulled the straps tight and locked it in place with a tiny
padlock.
“Let me go damnit! Let me go!
I’ll get you! I swear I’ll get
you!”
“Ya sure ya don’t wanna
gag her too boss?”
“Damn you! You can’t do this! I’m a heroine damnit! A heroine!”
She kicked wildly.
“Oh yeah. You know what happens when you can’t see or
hear? Your mind starts making stuff up
to fill the darkness. Be pretty funny to
hear the big bad Blackout go crazy huh?”
“LET ME GO!” She shrieked.
***
Meanwhile across town,
a man in a trench coat stood by the ruins of a collapsed warehouse.
He waited for some
time, checking his watch and checking the skies until finally a leggy blonde in
a blue and red costume landed next to him.
“Sorry! Sorry!
I was at the school I work at and they had me checking test papers and
then we had a staff meeting and I didn’t even hear your ultrasonic radio
message until-“
“It’s OK Lynn. I think I found something. Look over there.”
“Huh? Stars and comets
“Pretty simple
Stella. At least if you were trained by
Night Fox. You see I started by checking
out everyone who’d met with the Minx before she disappeared. One of them was a psychiatrist named Ashley
Acker.”
“OK, so?”
“I talked to the DA and
it turn out Ashley Acker was recommended by Zola Zenith.”
“Who?”
“Zola Zenith, the
ex-circus acrobat who married the electronics tycoon. Later she put on a costume and called herself
Night Fox Lady.”
“Night Fox Lady? I never heard of her.”
“She was before you
time, before Gloria’s too. She didn’t
last long. She only put on the costume
to impress Night Fox.”
“OK, so this
ex-sidekick recommended a psychiatrist.”
“Right, but it turns
out Ashley Acker was a fake, she disappeared just after the Minx broke out of
jail. Zola disappeared around the same
time, her mansion and her townhouse are empty.”
“So Zola’s up to
something.”
“Exactly. It took some work but I found out Zola bought
some property in the warehouse district.
It collapsed a few weeks ago.
Seems there were tunnels under it, they were destroyed in a series of
explosions.”
“Yeah, I saw it a
couple of days ago.”
“You did? And you didn’t do anything?”
“Huh? No, the cops said it was abandoned! I don’t have time to check out every little
thing in the whole city!”
“Sorry. I didn’t know! Didn’t the cops check it out?”
“No. Budget cuts.
They just put up this fence and called it an accident. But now that I know Zola was involved in
this-”
“Got it! Whatever was down there, I’ll find it!”
Stella’s blue eyes
turned pale and she stared at the ruins.
Then she frowned. “Stars and
comets, lead pipes, I can’t see anything.”
“Then we do it the hard
way.”
***
Sunbeam barely noticed
the men picking her up. The young heroine
was lying on the floor, covered in sweat and cum, shivering. All she wanted was to sleep. To wake up and find out this was all a
terrible dream. She couldn’t even
remember how many times they had taken her.
Now they were moving her. Maybe
they were letting her go?
But there was no relief
for the weary girl. They tossed her in
the shower and turned on the cold water.
She shrieked when it hit her but at least it brought it back to reality.
One of them tossed her
some soap. “Git yerself cleaned up girl,
boss wants you.”
Dawn nodded
mutely. She peeled off her gloves and
boots, the last traces of her life as ‘Sunbeam’. It was fitting, she didn’t feel too heroic
right now.
She turned her back to
the guard, trying to forget he was there.
She applied soap to her lithe body, running it along her arms and legs,
applying it generously to her breasts and body, as if she could wash away the
things they’d made her do.
Her mind raced. What could she do? Bruno’s thugs were all around and she didn’t even
know where she was! She had to wait for
her chance, wait until there weren’t too many guards, or until they were
distracted. She caught sight of the one
guard in the room, watching her intently.
A light bulb went off
in her mind.
She turned off the water
and stepped from the shower. Standing in
front of the guard she stretched one long, fit leg and toweled it off. Then the other. Then she rubbed her body with the towel,
paying special attention to her pert breasts.
It was the hardest thing she’d ever done but she smiled and winked at
the guard as he took everything in.
Then she dropped the
towel and faced him. “Like what you
see?”
“Er…”
She walked up to him
and put her arms around the thug. “You
didn’t get a taste before did you? Well,
want one now?”
“I wouldn’t mind
a-UH!” Dawn kneed him between the legs
and hit his neck with a karate chop. The
guard went down like a sack of bricks.
For the first time
since she woke up she gave a real smile.
She pulled on her boots
and gloves again and covered herself with the thug’s jacket. She found a revolver in his pocket and
thought about for a second. She decided
to keep it.
“Now I have to find
Natalie and get out of here!”
She opened the bathroom
door. The room beyond was empty. She slipped out and into the corridor. So far, so good.
She turned left. The room they had Natalie in was on the other
side of the wall, she figured it should be that door there.
She took out the
revolver and pulled back the hammer. She
opened the door.
“Hey Dawn!”
Bruno was waiting for
her! With a dozen men! A dozen more filled the corridor behind
her. And Natalie was hanging behind him,
her face covered in some kind of hood.
She pointed the gun at Bruno.
“So I guess you took
advantage of poor Rick, he always was a bit slow on the uptake.”
“L-let my sister go or
I swear I’ll-“
“What? Try to shoot me, get beaten up and raped by
my men and then get to watch them tear your sister apart? Is that your big plan?”
“N-no…” Dawn’s hands started to shake. The revolver wouldn’t keep still.
“You do love your
sister right?”
“Y-yes…”
“Why don’t you put down
the gun like a good girl?”
Dawn dropped the gun
and fell to her knees. “Oh God, oh God…”
she hyperventilated. The assembled thugs
just watched her. Finally Boss Bruno
stood up and took her hand.
“Come with me Dawn, and
no one will hurt you.”
She nodded meekly and
let him lead her out of the room. She’d
failed, it was hopeless!
“Sssh, it’s OK now, you
just made a mistake, it happens. But you
realize your mistake now don’t you?”
She nodded mutely.
“And you’ll be a good
girl won’t you?”
She nodded again.
Boss Bruno stifled a
laugh. These ‘heroines’ weren’t that
different from any other girls he’d broken.
Sure they dressed funny but in the end they had the same buttons as
anyone else. He’d figured Rick would
mess up, that’s why Rick’s gun was loaded with blanks. But she didn’t need to know that. All Dawn knew was that her last desperate
hope had been shattered.
He took her to a small
elevator which brought them upstairs to Bruno’s mansion, right up to his
bedroom. He kept a comforting hand on
the frightened girl’s shoulders and led her inside. There was a dress waiting for her on the
bed.
“Put it on Dawn, I had
it made for you.”
It was a yellow and red
spandex tube dress, modeled after her ‘Sunbeam’ costume. It was strapless, barely covering her
breasts, with a miniskirt that would barely cover her ass.
There was no underwear
of course.
“You can thank me.”
“T-thank you Boss
Bruno.”
“Well… put it on.” He turned his back giving the captive heroine
an illusion of privacy. Dawn hastily
removed the guard’s jacket and squirmed into the dress. It was tight but it fit perfectly. She wondered distantly when they’d made it,
Bruno mentioned he’d been watching them.
For all she knew this had been planned months in advance.
Bruno turned around and
kissed her, she returned the kiss. Their
tongues intermingled, she could feel his hand on her ass, he pulled her close,
her breasts pushed against his body.
She’d been so scared, somehow being in a man’s arms, even Boss Bruno’s,
made her feel safe. At least when she
was with him she wouldn’t be given to his men.
He climbed onto the bed
and lay down.
“Y’know, most of the
guys downstairs want you and your sister dead.
After what you did them the last few months. They ain’t the type to forgive and
forget. But I stopped them.”
“T-thanks…”
“I bet you’re wondering
what you can do to make it up to me.
Well I’m sure you’ll think of something.”
Dawn hesitated again,
and looked around the room. Bruno was a
big guy but with her training, with some luck, she could knock him out while he
was… distracted.
But then what?
Glancing at the windows
she saw they were barred. And even if
she could get out there’d be men outside.
And her sister would still be prisoner.
And what would she do
even if she got out?
Call the cops?
Boss Bruno owned the
cops.
Call the Minx?
She was missing.
Call Stella?
Dawn had no idea how to
contact the Girl of the Stars.
No, it was hopeless. Even without cuffs or chains Dawn was Boss
Bruno’s helpless prisoner.
She closed her eyes and
swallowed. She put on a smile. She unzipped his pants and took out his dick,
she rubbed it with her fingers feeling it grow warm and firm. She opened her mouth and locked her lips on
it, licking its head.
She tried to forget
everything else.
***
They’d been digging for
hours through the rubble of the old warehouse.
They’d found some fishy things, a room full of weapons, crates of drugs,
sacks of cash… But no sign of the
Minx.
“Stars and comets! How deep does this thing go!”
“We fought the Puzzler
once in these tunnels. They’re old. Over a century at least. Whatever Zola was up to she sure picked the
right place to do it. You know there
were rumors…”
“About what?”
“Something about a new
crime boss, a woman, moving very aggressively against the existing gangs.”
“So you think the Minx
and Zola teamed up to fight her?”
“That’s um… one
possibility.”
“Huh?”
“Never mind, just a
notion. Let’s keep digging.”
Stella picked up
another chunk of rubble, exposing another room.
This one looked central, with several corridors coming in and out. There was a tall throne-like chair toppled in
one corner and the floor was cracked in half exposing a deep pit. Body parts stuck out from under a pile of
rubble.
Stella gagged.
“This wasn’t an
accident, someone blew this place up with people inside.”
“You don’t think Gloria
would-“
“No, of course
not. Let’s keep looking. Can you see anything in that pit?”
Stella shrugged and
looked down, her blue eyes once more turning pale.
“Oh no…”
“Stella what is it-“
But the blonde was
already flying into the pit. She
vanished into the darkness.
“Stella?
No answer.
“Damn it. I’m too old for this…” He muttered.
But he took a line from his coat pocket and tied it to a bit of
rebar. He put his flashlight in his
mouth and climbed down. The pit was
deep, going down far into the earth, far below any sewers or tunnels on the
city plan. But Stella was nowhere near
the bottom, she was kneeling on a ledge, over a body wrapped in her own cape.
“Stella?”
“I… I found her…
she…” Stella’s voice chocked up.
He pulled the flap of
the cape up.
And shut his eyes.
It was her.
Gloria Barbarossa.
She’d been dead a few
days and the body was in bad shape but there was no mistaking that face, those empty
eyes staring into nothing, those open lips where no more words would ever pass…
“WHY DIDN’T YOU TELL ME
SHE WAS DEAD!” Stella screamed.
“I didn’t-“
“You promised! You promised you’d find her! You promised she’d be OK!”
“Lynn I never-“
“I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU!”
Her eyes turned red,
He knelt down and
closed Gloria’s eyes and pulled the cape back around her face. He looked up, it would a long climb,
especially with Gloria on his shoulder.
He sighed.
“I’m really too old for
this.”
***
Dawn lay next to Boss
Bruno in his bedroom. The room was huge,
filled with expensive antique furniture and statues. She was lying on silk sheets with Bruno’s
muscular arm around her slender shoulders.
It would be easy. So easy.
He was sound
asleep. Snoring.
She could climb on top
and choke him. Wrap a sheet around his
neck to strangle him or even smother him with a pillow. She could slip into the bathroom, break the
mirror and slit his throat with a piece of glass.
But what good would it
do? There were men everywhere. And she’d pay the price. And so would her sister.
She closed her eyes and
went to sleep.
***
“Stars and comets I’m sorry, I just…”
“It’s OK Lynn, it’s OK.”
They were back in the penthouse. When he arrived
“It’s just I never realized how much…”
“I know, I know. I
felt that way when Wes died.”
“She was always so smart, so strong how could this…”
“It’s easy to forget
Stella sniffled.
“Where…”
“Downstairs, in the Minx Pad. There’s a freezer there so I can um, so I can
examine the uh… check for clues.”
“Hold me…”
Finally he walked her to the couch and they sat
side-by-side.
“N-now what?” She
finally asked.
“It’s late. Tomorrow
I’ll examine her, then go back to the site to look for more clues. Don’t worry
“Good. Just find them
OK? I’ll take care of them.”
“
“OK?”
“OK…”
They sat in silence for a bit longer.
“What about me?”
“What do you mean?”
“Well with Gloria de-, I mean gone, who’ll be my partner
now? I mean I can’t just do everything
alone…”
“Well I’ll help you find who did this but I can’t-“
“Please
“But I-“
“Please
“Where are you going!
“Lynn I…”
The blonde climbed to her feet and raced in front
“No! Wait! Um…”
She played with her hair, she looked away bashfully. “You um, you can have sex with me.”
“
“No, no it’s OK, it’s totally OK, there’s this doctor who
can like turn off my powers! So like, we
can have sex any time! Any time you
want! Any way you want! Hee-hee, I bet being Night Fox’s partner was
never like that!”
“
“What? Why? What’s wrong?
Don’t you like me?”
Despite her power
“
“
“If you go I’ll tell everyone! I’ll tell them Ferret the Wonder Boy is a faggot
who hates girls!”
The elevator doors closed.
“Damnit! Fine! Go!
And don’t come back! I don’t need
you! I don’t need ANYONE!”
Then she started to cry.
***
Three limos drove to the outskirts of Megapolis to a modest
suburban house set back from the street.
Several men in dark suits spilled out, carefully checking
the area. Finally the opened the door of
the middle limo.
Boss Bruno swaggered out.
Behind him came a slim brown-haired girl in a red and yellow
dress with sad eyes. She wiped some cum off
her lips and looked up.
“Oh no…” She
muttered.
“What’s the matter Sunbeam?
Ain’t you happy to be home?”
“How did you-“
“Aw my boys have been following you two for weeks. You two were pretty easy to follow, always
taking the same route back to your car and driving right home. No wonder the Minx thought you were a bunch
of morons.”
“Oh…”
He pulled out a key and let himself in. His men headed right for the basement.
Dawn looked around.
The house had barely changed since her father died. The family pictures were still on the wall,
the piano in the corner, her father’s library on the bookshelves… Everything was the way it was when she was
growing up.
A couple of thugs came up from the basement carrying boxes
of chemicals and equipment.
“What are you doing?”
“What? You didn’t
think we’d let that stuff go to waste did you?
Nah. The army will pay good money
for your little toys. Shame your dad
didn’t want to play ball when I talked to him, we could have had these a long
time ago, saved you and your sister a lot of grief.”
“Oh… so you’re the one who…”
“Nah. Your dad dying,
that was kind of an accident, one of my boys got a little too angry. You know me, I never kill someone I can find
a use for.” He leaned in and kissed
Dawn. She turned her face away but he
gave her arm a rough squeeze. She got
the hint and accepted the kiss.
“Now come on, let’s go upstairs.”
He led the reluctant girl upstairs, to her own bedroom. Dawn choked up to see it. Just a few days ago it had been home. And now it was part of a life she could never
return to. Tears leaked down her cheeks.
“Want to take anything with you?”
She looked again. The
teddy bear a boy gave her Valentines back in fifth grade. The picture of her and her sister in
She shook her head no.
Bruno led her out.
“Smart call, I mean none of that junk has anything to do with you
now. May as well make a fresh start
right?”
She mutely nodded.
As he led her out she saw more men leaving with her and
Natalie’s spare costumes. And two dead
women on the living room floor.
“Who-“
“Just two junkies, no one will miss them. But they’re around the same height as you and
your sister. Once that amateur lab you had
in the basement explodes, the cops won’t even investigate.
“Oh…”
Sure enough as the limos pulled out Dawn saw smoke rising
from the basement windows. Just as they
turned the corner there was a tremendous boom.
And that was the end of her old life.
Bruno pulled down the shoulder of her dress, she climbed on
his lap and kissed his neck. This was
her new life, and she had to make the best of it.
***
When they got back to Boss Burno’s mansion Dawn was sent
down to see her sister.
Natalie, the former Blackout was in a small cell now. There was a toilet and a sink and a cot. She was still in the filthy remains of her
costume and her head was covered by the
blinding and deafening hood.
“What! Who’s
there! I can feel you in here! Who are you!”
Dawn just looked at her.
Then she rush up and hugged her sister.
“D-Dawn-I mean Sunbeam?
Is that you?”
“Yes Natalie, it’s me, I’m sorry, I’m so sorry.”
“I can’t hear you, I can’t hear anything. Sunbeam if it’s you, squeeze my hand.”
She squeezed her sister’s hand.
“Sunbeam listen, we have to get out of here, I’ve been
thinking and I have a plan, we need to get a message to the Minx…”
Dawn sat and listened to he sister’s plan, it made no sense,
it was unworkable, besides they both knew the Minx was missing. But she held her sister and squeezed her hand
and muttered words Natalie could not hear.
It was all she could do.
Then when Blackout ran out of words, Sunbeam peeled off
Natalie’s costume and washed her sister’s filthy body.
Finally she dressed her sister in a spare costume and
prepared to go. Natalie took her hand
one last time.
“Sunbeam, listen, whatever you do, don’t tell them
anything. We can’t let them know our
secret identities or where we live. As
long as they don’t know that we’ll be safe once we escape.”
Dawn stared at her sister for a long time but finally
squeezed her hand ‘yes’ and left the cell.
“So, did you have fun with your sister?”
Dawn nodded mutely.
“That’s good. You
must be so happy that you’re keeping her safe.”
“Um yeah. Uh Boss Bruno…”
“Yes darling?”
“Maybe someone else could take care of her for a while? I mean it’s just…” She choked up and let out a sob.
“There, there, of course my dear. My men will be happy to take care of her.”
“Thanks Boss…”
***
A few weeks later, a group of limos pulled up outside the
When he entered the hotel staff and his men had already
emptied the lobby. He got on an elevator
and proceeded directly to the rooftop restaurant. The popular eatery was closed for a very
private party. A cop could have made his
career by arresting any one of the dozen guests there. There were crime bosses from across Megapolis
and beyond.
“Gentlemen, gentlemen, thank you for coming. I have some good news tonight.”
“You’d better Bruno, if I’m coming here to your turf you’d
better have a good reason.”
“Gentlemen as you know for the last 3 years we’ve all had a
slight problem with women. First it was
Night Fox’s old squeeze and that flying bimbo.
Then that Miss
“Yeah we know all that Bruno, what’s the point?”
“The point? Well it’s
been a month since anyone saw the Minx.
Stella barely bothers with anything smaller than a giant robot these
days and Miss
“Yeah? Well they’re
enough, those bitches cost me $20 grand last month.”
“$20 grand? Well
that’s a shame, bet you’d like to get them back for that.”
“You making a point or just wasting our time Bruno?”
“Girls?”
Two figures entered the room one pulling the other by the
arm. She took off her hat, unbuttoned
her coat and let it drop to the floor.
She was a slim girl with light brown hair in a tight red and yellow
minidress with red stockings. She smiled
but her eyes were tired and sad.
She carefully removed her companion’s hat and coat. The second girl was shorter and a bit more
muscular, she was dressed in a blue and white leotard, similar to old costume
but just a bit smaller. Her face was
almost completely covered by a blue leather mask the blinded and deafened her,
only her lips were exposed and they were set in a grim line.
BLACKOUT and SUNBEAM!
The taller girl pulled her forward a few steps and addressed
the waiting guests..
“H-hello everyone.
M-my name is D-Dawn L-Lux and I…” her voice cracked “I w-was
Sunbeam. And t-this is m-my s-sister
N-Natalie.” She stopped and panted a few
times. Boss Bruno put a reassuring hand
on her shoulder and she calmed down.
Dawn’s voice got steadier. “We…
we work for Boss Bruno now.”
She lowered her head and retreated behind Bruno. He patted her on her head.
“Thank you Dawn. You
all have my assurances that your heroine problems are officially over.”
“Yeah? How do we know
these two are really heroines and not just two of your whores?”
Bruno pulled Dawn close and fondled her breasts through the
thin dress. “Heh, wanna know something
funny. They’re both now. But Dawn, why don’t you show Klaus over there
your credentials.”
Dawn bit her lip but nodded.
She walked up to the crime boss, hips swinging the way Boss Bruno taught
her. She flicked her hair back and sat
on his lap, straddling his body with her legs.
She kissed him and ran her fingers through his hair. She cast a sideways glance at Bruno and he
nodded.
She head-butted Klaus and delivered karate chops to both
sides of his neck. The crime boss
groaned, his eyes rolled up in his head and he fell out of the chair.
Dawn nervously trotted back to Boss Bruno while the rest
watched in stunned silence.
“You see boys, she’s the real thing, and she’s 100%
mine.” He hugged her, she kissed his
neck.
“Some show Bruno, glad to hear you’re doing so well. But what about the rest of us? Don’t we get a bit of payback?”
“Well funny you should ask, that’s why we’re here. Dawn?”
Dawn looked at Bruno in horror. He couldn’t!
He wouldn’t! Since that first day
she’d only been with him!
“Dawn, give them your sister.”
A look of relief crossed Dawn’s face before turning back
into horror.
“Unless you’d rather… yourself.”
She shook her head no and nervously took Natalie by the
hand. Holding her sister’s arm and
stroking it reassuringly she sat her sister on the table.
“Sunbeam? Sunbeam
what’s going on?”
“Sssh, it’s OK, it’s going to be fine.” She stroked Blackout’s arm again.
The men laughed.
Dawn let go of her sister’s arm and hurried back to Bruno,
seizing his arm and hiding her face.
The men closed in on Blackout, one tore off her flimsy
leotard.
“Dawn? DAWN!” She screamed.
The door closed and Sunbeam couldn’t hear any more.
***
The next afternoon Stella stretched and strolled into the
penthouse. Funny how sunbathing took so
much energy huh?
They were still delivering dozens of newspapers that Gloria
subscribed to. Out of habit she started
to carry them to Gloria’s room, then paused and sighed. Instead she carried them to the trash. One headline caught her eye though:
Where are Blackout and Sunbeam?
By Timmy O’Leary
It’s been weeks since this reporter was able to contact the Light
Crusader and Dark Avenger, they’ve not been seen on patrol and the police no
longer find blinded criminals tied up in alleyways…
“Huh? Weren’t those
the two girls who were always bugging Gloria?
I guess they finally gave up.”
She tossed the paper and headed for the shower. She had an appointment with Dr. Corvidae
later!
Afterword
Writing Blackout and Sunbeam was
a lot of fun. Two bickering sisters
trying to be superheroes made for a pretty entertaining combination. And showed that, whatever her problems, the
Minx was pretty darn good at her job.
As for the subplot his issue,
some people have accused me of pulling a trick with the Minx’s death. After all the old rule is ‘no body, no
death.” Well I hope this puts an end to
all that!
She’s dead!
Really!
Honest!
Would I lie?
Next
Issue – Everyone knows
that Stella is the most powerful woman in the world. Or is she?
When a mysterious flying woman comes to Megapolis Stella might just find
herself replaced.
Be back for Issue 29: Enter Celestia!
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